KSW lightweight champion Salahdine Parnasse impressively retained his title at the promotion’s final event of 2024.
Parnasse delivered another dominant showing atop the KSW 101: Le Classique card inside París La Défense Arena in France, scoring a destructive ground-and-pound TKO against Wilson Varela, snapping his opponents’ six-fight unbeaten streak.
Parnasse caught Varela with a right cross early in the second stanza and promptly bounced on him, reigning down strikes until the referee was forced to step in and call for the stoppage at the one-minute mark of the round.
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With the win, Parnasse moved to 12-2 under the KSW banner and 20-2 overall with a 65% finish rate, including five knockouts and seven submissions.